Excelsior

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"The Excelsior is a folding camera for 13x18cm plates, made by Wünsche from about 1900. Three examples of the camera have been seen: these are wooden-bodied, with black leather covering and bellows. McKeown, however, describes a rather different camera: "Fine wood body, square green bellows with red corners, roller-blind shutter. With Rodenstock or other brass-barrel lens". This (with a brass lens and roller shutter) sounds like an older camera. The examples seen may simply be later in the period of production. They each have a different lens and shutter: The camera has a 'reversible' back: that is, it can be…"

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